Sells Quotes - Page 35

• If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

  Stefan Zweig

  Should, Ifs

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• I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

  Bob Dole

  Book, Mean, Guy

  "Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill". edition.cnn.com. January 12, 2004.

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• I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

  Christopher Nolan

  Trying, Want, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Guarantees That, Mind

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• Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

  Adam Leipzig

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Reality, Ideas

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• For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

  Janet Fish

  Jobs, Long, Goal

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• I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

  Peter Doig

  Feelings, Wish, Way

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• The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

  Jef Raskin

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

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• As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Book, Rights, Illustration

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Fighting, Games, Office

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• I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.

  Emily Rodda

  Girl, Book, Writing

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• Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

  Kin Hubbard

  Men, Office, Boxes

  "Short Furrows". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1911.

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• I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Home, Men, House

  'The Drapier's Letters' (1724) no. 2 (4 August 1724)

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• How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Angel, Maids, Might

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Book, Wife

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture" (p. 211), 1980.

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• In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Careers, Virginia

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• And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Men, Found, Goods

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Yelling, Effort

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Girl, Nice, Years

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.

  Charles Lamb

  Brother, Book, Doe

  "Last Essays of Elia". Book by Charles Lamb, 1833.

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• My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Father, Reading

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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